[ honestly, he shouldn't have been surprised, since his luck always came around -- but he didn't expect it to balance out so soon. of course, the astounding privilege of meeting a shsl he'd yet to meet, even in a situation like this, probably meant that this ordeal was going to be pretty terrible, but that was just splitting hairs. ]

Escaped...? I'm sorry, I'm afraid I'm not sure what you mean. At the very least, I'm sure this isn't Hope's Peak, and just before this I was on an island... Were you having some trouble?